At the Hatton Garden Office, on Tuesday, a person calling
himself Mr. King Al4Ness, attended as an interpreter to assist a Hindoo who charged a man with a theft. M‘Ness said he was a retired officer of the East India Company ; and Mr. Laing asked him to take a seat on the bench. Subsequently, after APNess had gone, a Policeman told Mr. Laing that M‘Ness was a fellow who had been committed from this office for illegally pawning some books; which made the Magis- trate very„wrathful, He is becoming particular as to his associates, we suppose.
At the Marylebone Office, on Thursday, George Smith and Richard Smith, brothers, and privates in the Coldstream Guards, were re- manded on a charge of stabbing John Chaplin, a shoemaker living at Minerva Place, Hampstead, on Wednesday evening. From the evidence, it appeared that Chaplin had had a quarrel and scuffle with the soIi,.rs ; and that George Smith had stabbed Chaplin in the abde. men, with his bayonet. Smith resisted the efforts to secure him, and it was some time before he was disarmed and taken into custody. His defence was, that Chaplin was the aggressor ; having got hold of Richard Smith's bayonet, with which he hurt George Smith on the band, (the man's hand was bloody,) and that the wound in the abdomen was aecidentally;;iven by Chaplin himself during the struggle. Chaplin died in great agony, at the London Hospital, on Thursday night.
A new salety•coach will start in a few days for Brighton, accompa- nied, it is anticipated, by the Taglioni and Duvertmy fashionable drags, and a number of distinguished individuals-as judges of the experiments to be performed. It is guaranteed to maintain its perpendicularity running at full speed with the near wheels off and the far ones on, or vice VP, ; also with one or two wheels working on a bank three feet high, and the others in the drain ; nay, even with its axle broken. The coach has a very elegant appearance ; and the upright supporters which Ilse from the beds and axle, passing between the body and the boots, and by means of which the vehicle maintains its vertical posi- tion, are concealed from view. The principle has already been taken up for private carriages, several of which are now building.—Post.
Our attention has been called to a vessel now lying in the West India Export Dock. She is a suspicious.looking craft, schooner-rigged; and it is the oainion of nautical men that she is fitting out as a slaver. Surely nothing so infamous can be permitted in an English port, more particularly in the port of London, and under the immediate observa- tion of the Government.—Post.
Several children, belonging to respectable parents, have lately been reported at the Police-offices as " missing ;" and it is believed that some persons have enticed them away for bad purposes.
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